English Place Names
A number of towns, villages and cities have English place names. These include Banfield which is named after Edward Banfield (railroad engineer). Hurlingham, Buenos Aires and Hurlingham Partido took their name from the Hurlingham Club around which the city of Hurlingham grew. Others include the town of Lincoln, Washington and City Bell, a small town in La Plata partido, Buenos Aires province, which was founded around 1900 by English immigrants and which is named after its founder, George Bell. Temperley is named after the industrial and textile merchant George Temperley, who was born in 1823 in Newcastle upon Tyne in England. He helped to create Lomas de Zamora Partido and made possible the foundation of the town of Temperley. Allen, Río Negro is named after Charles Allen who managed the construction of the city's train station.
There are several train station-founded towns with English names in the country such as Goudge in Mendoza province. Roberts, Smith, Hereford, Henderson and Hale. The Station of Monte Coman in Mendoza Province owes its name to a dispute with the British Engineers who did not pay the local workers on time. The workers complained they had nothing to eat. An engineer said, in bad Spanish, "Coman Monte" Which was supposed to mean "eat the trees".
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